Gabriel sighed and gestured in again. "Come sit, Kitty, please. It is not for me to question the judgement of the mother superior, or whoever sent you away for whatever reason. But even if you are not a nun, you are still a baptised Christian and that in itself in a vocation to serve God, just in a different form." Not all priests would be comfortable with this way of looking at it. It might undermine the status of the religious life. But as a parish priest, working with the laity most of the time, Gabriel was convinced there needed to be more attention to the vocation of all believers.

He wouldn't tell the bishop.